SEXUAL OFFENCES.
STRONG REMARKS BY A JUDGE. By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. In his charge to the Grand Jury at the. Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Hosking deplored the fact that of the twenty cases that were of a sexual nature three wero for unnatural offences, two offences ngainst children and one of incest. This terrible list, ho believed, was due to the nbsence of the certainty of a conviction. He was struck by the'frequency of the excuse that the culprit believed'the girl ,\vas over the age. His Honor suggested that cases against children should he tried summarily before three Magistrates, as during the lapse of time'between the police court and the Supreme Court, children were liable to forget the main facts of the cases. He further suggested that the existing law allowing a jury to acquit a man of an offence against a girl if shown he believed she was of age, should be repealed. It had already been repealed in Great Britain.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1917, Page 3
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163SEXUAL OFFENCES. Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1917, Page 3
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